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Preparing Plants for Winter.

It is a great mistake to delay the work of preparation for winter until it is suggested by cool flights or a warning given by blighting frosts. When a plant has been taken from a pot and planted in open ground it usually outgrows its former place and is too large for any vessel of convenient size. The root should be cut away to it considerable extent and likewise the top or foliage must be correspondingly reduced. Novices often fail at this point, for they dislike to part with any of the new growth, and set tile plant it) it pot unpruned and expect, what is not possible, that it will flourish Cut back root system and branch system equally is the rule. Plants when thus transplanted need to be favored by being kept in the shade and sheltered from the drying winds until they have made a good start in the pots, Many of the house plants are kept in their pots during the summer and they will need repotting or the pot washed and the surface soil replaced by fresh, rich earth, A larger pot is Deeded by those plants whose roots have formed a mat along the inner surface. The ball of earth call be examined quickly by spreading the left hand oil the vessel-the stem passing between the fingers, and with the other hand on the bottom invert the pot and give the edge a downward tap against some object. If this does not succeed, pour some water around the edge, and after it short time repeat the operation. All old pots should be clean, and if new ones are used soak them fit water until the pores are filled. A piece of broken vessel is placed over the bottom hole before filling fit the potting earth. All the necessary pots, soil, etc., should be obtained now, that they may be at hand when needed at any time during the winter.

Calystegia pubeseens.—M. N. Y., Hamden, Conn., wishes to know if this plant could be grown ill large pots or tabs. Yes, we should think it would succeed well in tubes falls and make a fine climbing plant in fact, this method of growing them would have this advantage over planting them fit the open ground in that they would not ran over the entire land and become troublesome.

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